The picture at the top of this page appears on the website of the international publisher Penguin Random House. It purports to show the ethnic make up of the company’s staff hired over a five year period. Last year, the company stressed it was pursuing a programme of greater diversity and inclusion – meaning fewer […]
By Michael HoffmanIf the Koren translation of Rabbi Adin Steinsaltz's Babylonian Talmud is as faithful to his text as was the Random House edition, and if all Steinsaltz volumes are printed, this will represent a milestone in the history of the publication of the Babylonian Talmud - the first complete edition in English which has not been redacted.A little more than half way through the project, Random House stopped publication of the uncensored Steinsaltz Talmud after printing 21 volumes and a "reference guide," for reasons never fully explained.
